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I was wondering if there have been any recent developments in hybrid graphics with radeon HD 5xxx series cards. All I want to do is use my discreet card for hardware acceleration and gaming, I have...

I have been out of the Ubuntu scene for a few months now and I was wondering is there are still problems with hybrid graphics, my laptop on Ubuntu was defaulting to the integrated chip, and nothing I...

I want to try Final Fantasy XIV out through wine, but I need the catalyst drivers working to even run the game :(

Anyone managed to get it working with ATI Mobility Radeon 5000 yet, specifically 5400 series?

Also I noticed on the ATI website there is a new beta driver released 12.6 and it says it allows...

No laptop vendors care, contacted HP about it on my laptop and all they would say is "we are unable to support software that was not preinstalled" even when I was only asking if there were plans to...

Still can't get this working properly with my ATI 5470 card, here is my current xorg.conf, I'm not sure if its been setup properly


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
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Has anyone tried this on 12.4 with an ati radeon HD 5400 series laptop yet? I can only ever get low graphics mode and I have to restore the default xorg.conf so fglrx will not work, I use the fglrx...

Its what we are trying to work out right now, from what I have seen even the Linux gurus are having problems with Intel/ATI hybrid graphics.

I posted this in another thread and I don't like posting multiple times, but I hit the wrong prefix, so I don't know if it is getting the right people to see, so I thought I would post it here to see...

Edit: Hit the wrong prefix this is an Ubuntu problem, and I cant find where to change it.

After failing to get my discreet GPU working in ubuntu 11.10 I decided to install 12.04 to see if it was...

You don't need the driver to complete the installation, however if you require 3d (for games) or any desktop effects you will need it.

However if you have hybrid graphics (graphics switchable...

This didn't work for me using an ATI mobility radeon HD 5470 and a first generation i5 CPU with integrated graphics controller. I issue aticonfig --initial -f and get a black screen on boot, and have...

I just want to post this to see how many people would like HP to allow upgrade laptop BIOS to allow us to choose which GPU we need to show them people want it.

I want to see how well some games...

Ok I know for certain that the problem is that the system is defaulting to my integrated GPU, with ATI drivers disabled I can configure vgaswitcheroo to change to my discreet GPU if I queue it for...

I did that and it wrote the new xorg.conf, however now my ubuntu will not boot, I just get a screen with some options and [ok] or [fail] next to them, I think it is because of the new xorg.conf...

Ok I managed to get aticonfig running, seemed to work after I installed the JDK, I was wondering if anyone knows the aticonfig commands to get my card working properly, and allow me to open CCC.
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Sorry I did biu get the same error as in my previous post when I try to check CCC, also when I try to run aticonfig with sh aticonfig in the usr/bin folder it says "aticonfig: 1: Syntax error: "("...

When I try to open CCC I get this error:

I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my HP Pavilion dv6-3182 laptop and when I install the propriotory driver the OS finds it doesn't seem to be working, and when I install the post release...